Gingerbread House

My daughter and son-in-law trade Christmases between my side his family.   This year they went to upstate NY to his parents home.   They flew out bright and early on Dec. 22nd.   Within 3 hours of landing, they sent me these pictures of Elle decorating a Gingerbread House that her Grandma had made and had waiting for her.     They had so much fun and kept her busy with activities non-stop.

It was a great Christmas for her.

For this layout I used the January Sketch at  "SCRAP OUR STASH CHALLENGE BLOG"  it was just revealed today.    I had printed these pictures yesterday know I would scrap them soon.   I just had to cut down the 3 a little bit to fin with the sketch and I was ready to start my layout.

Besides using the sketch you also had to use chevron paper and something gold.   The green center paper is my chevron and the base paper is gold and white stripes and I also added a gold gumdrop embellishment to my layout.

Here is the sketch and link to  "SCRAP OUR STASH"

Winter Fun

This is my take on the January Sketch at  "LET'S GET SKETCHY"  

My Piano Concert

My granddaughter loves sitting at the piano and "playing".   Going to have to get this girls some lessons and see how she does.    This was Christmas week and she started playing by herself, then told her Mom to come play with her and then went and got her Uncle Bruce in the other room to come join them also.   I also took my turn with her and so did her Great-Grandpa.    Mom and Uncle Bruce were the only ones that could play a song at all.   I had even forgotten chopsticks.   LOL

I used the single page scrap for January at  "STICK IT DOWN"  for this layout.

Then I played along with the tic-tac-toe challenge at  "SCRAP OUR STASH"  I used the next to last row, 4 pattered papers, Brad (I have 4) Stamp (enjoy the little things in red",  Doily and Use a Punch.

"STICK IT DOWN"

"SCRAP OUR STASH"

Goals

I made some totally different goals for myself this year and so far almost 2 weeks I'm sticking with them really well.   I drink so much more water every day.   I've even started just ordering water when we went out instead of a diet drink.    I'm over half way through with my 3rd book this month, so I think I'll easily surpass my goal of 15 books this year if I keep it up at this pace.

I'm entering my 2020 Goals layout at  "THE PAPER GIRLS CHALLENGE"  

Now on to the challenge.

It's Karrie here and our new challenge is exactly that ~ NEW!!

Showcase something new, your New Year's fun or resolutions, 

use some new product (did Santa bring you some scrappy goodies?) 

or try a new technique!  Lots of ways to go with this.

HI !!!

I made this card this morning and it is perfect for the first January challenge #389 - Anything Goes
at  "USE YOUR STUFF"    I certainly did that on this card.   I started with a simple white base
card and then pulled out my stash of Washi Tape.   I don't use it a lot so its been around for
awhile.  I used three stripes of narrow gold washi and then two stripes of the blue floral washi
tape between the gold.   Added the gold PL card that says 'Hi' as my sentiment and put a
stripe of black and gold washi across it.   I've had this PL card a good 4 years so glad I got to
use it.d    Sorry for the glare on my picture but it really looks gold without the glare.

"USE YOUR STUFF"

#389 Anything Goes

Happy New Year everyone!  New Year and a fresh new start to get working on that stash right!

We have a super easy challenge to start you off...it's ANYTHING GOES!  Create anything you want - but try to use some of that older stuff you have in your stash, not the new product you got for Christmas!! :)

A new change for this new year as well...Our challenges will be running for 2 weeks each..that means there will only be 2 challenges each month (one from each team) rather than 4!

This challenge will run from Monday Jan 6th until Saturday Jan 18th!  Lots of time to get your entries in!  Enter as many times as you would like but please no backlinking and make sure that you tag UYS in your post for our challenge as well.

Make Today Pretty

I love the beautiful sunsets we get here.    This one I took my last night here at the lake before I left for Christmas.   So glad I got another beautiful picture to end 2019 of sunsets.

I'm engineering this at   "LASTING MEMORIES"  for challenge #480 - White Space

LM #480 - White Space

Hello, hello! Happy Sunday! We are so happy that you are here today. It's time for a new challenge, so let's get started.

Our theme for January is "Out of your comfort zone" and this month we want to challenge you to create layouts you may usually pass over as it may not be within your normal comfort zone.

LM #480 - White Space

* If you're anything like me, I struggle with the idea of true white space. I would love to be reminded that we can create beautiful layouts with simplicity.

Always Believe

This is probably my favorite picture from this last Christmas.    My nephew surprised us all and came downstairs Christmas morning dressed as Santa.   Even Dad asked to have his picture taken with Santa before we started opening our presents.   It was so special.

I'm entering this layout at  "SOUL-SCRAPPERS"  for their challenge MB#22

What is a Mystery bag challenge?

mystery bag (plural mystery bags)

1. A bag whose contents are unknown. quotations ▼
2. A surprise package randomly picked, a lucky dip.
3. A non-specific mixed lot of a product at the supplier's choice.

In other words each month, the challenges will be different. You could get a quote, mixed media, technique, song, lift, color, vision board, product, poem etc....

For our last challenge for the year......

CHRISTMAS.....anything goes!

It could be last minute Christmas card, scrap page or something you have made for Christmas, a special ornament, christmas gift, putting up your Christmas tree, baking, wrapping gifts, decorations etc.....